July
sat27jul7:00 pmThe Highwaymen Show7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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The Highwaymen Show is the Great American Outlaw musical celebrating the world’s most recognized classic country artists. These icons are responsible for creating a new
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The Highwaymen Show is the Great American Outlaw musical celebrating the world’s most recognized classic country artists. These icons are responsible for creating a new era in country music. Our show features a cast portraying the parts of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, as they looked in their prime. They perform their biggest hits, while telling the stories about how they grew together as friends. This show gives you the opportunity to see what they looked like and what they sounded like as they became the superstars we know today. “We feature songs like Always on My Mind, Ring of Fire, Me and Bobby McGee and Luckenbach Texas. I wanted to provide people the opportunity to a show I wish I could have seen,” Founder Gray Sartin said.
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Time
July 27, 2024 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
August
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Join us for a day of history and culture as we celebrate all things Otero County. This event will take place on the street in
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Join us for a day of history and culture as we celebrate all things Otero County. This event will take place on the street in front of the Flickinger Center, with local artists and vendors presenting, as well as local documentary films in the theater. In collaboration with the Tularosa Basin Historical Society, Patron’s Hall (next door to the theater) will be transformed into a museum showcasing the rich history of Otero County. New Mexico legends Lone Piñon will end the night with a live performance, so don’t forget your dancing shoes!
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Time
August 17, 2024 4:00 pm - 10:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
September
wed11sep7:00 pmTab Benoit24/25 Season7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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Catch Tab Benoit Live at the Flickinger Center! Get ready for a night of smokin’ hot blues with Louisiana’s own Tab Benoit!
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Catch Tab Benoit Live at the Flickinger Center!
Get ready for a night of smokin’ hot blues with Louisiana’s own Tab Benoit! He’s bringing his signature sound to the Flickinger Center in Alamogordo, NM, and you won’t want to miss it.
Tab Benoit is a Grammy-nominated blues legend known for his electrifying live shows and soulful songwriting. Don’t miss your chance to see him live in Alamogordo!
www.tabbenoit.com
About:
One of the most impressive guitarists to emerge from the rich Bayous of Southern Louisiana in recent years, Tab Benoit‘s guitar tone can be recognized before his Otis-Redding-ish voice resonates from the speakers. He doesn’t rely on any effects and his set up is simple. It consists of a guitar, cord, and Category 5 Amplifier. The effects that you hear come from his fingers.
Born on November 17, 1967, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Benoit grew up in the nearby oil and fishing town of Houma, where he still resides today. Musically, he was exposed early on to traditional Cajun waltzes and the country music broadcast on his hometown’s only radio station. Benoit’s father was himself a musician; as such, the family home was filled with various instruments. He began playing drums but switched to guitar because the only gigs to be had in rural Louisiana were held in churches and at church fairs, and organizers would not allow loud drums to be played at these events.
In 1992 Benoit released his first recording, Nice and Warm, on the Justice label. The title track became a AAA Radio hit and Benoit’s touring career kicked into high gear. Nice and Warm prompted comparisons to blues guitar heavyweights like Albert King, Albert Collins and even Jimi Hendrix. Tab began playing two-hundred and fifty shows a year, a schedule he has kept up for over twenty years.
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Time
September 11, 2024 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
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RESCHEDULED to September 30, 2024. Any tickets purchased for the April date will be honored in September. For more info please
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RESCHEDULED to September 30, 2024.
Any tickets purchased for the April date will be honored in September. For more info please call the Flickinger Center at 575-437-2202.
JIMMIE VAUGHAN
In true Texas fashion, four-time Grammy-winner Jimmie Vaughan has helped breathe new life into the music that has been his lifeline all these decades, becoming a hero to those who cherish America’s real gift to musical history.
”When I talk about country and blues, they’re the same thing,” Jimmie Vaughan says. “Muddy Waters and Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed. When I was a kid, I didn’t understand the difference. Everybody was always asking me, ‘Why do you want to play blues? Why don’t you play country?’ But I would listen to the country guys and they would be doing a Jimmy Reed song. They’re playing the same lick. And Ray Charles, Little Milton, Guitar Junior, Lonnie Brooks, B.B. King–they all did country songs. Is Bob Wills country blues or jazz? And the answer is, it’s American music. I’m tired of trying to pigeonhole everything. I want to bring it together; it comes from the same place.”
As a young teenager in Oak Cliff, Texas, his father told him to take guitar lessons if he wanted to really learn the instrument. But when Vaughan’s teacher told the guitar student it wasn’t going to work because the student “was too far gone” to learn from the lesson books, Jimmie Vaughan knew he was on his own. Which was perfect for him, because the blues would be his teacher for life. For those who find themselves living inside this true American music, it becomes a way of life, and a musical force to follow forever.
Jimmie Vaughan became possessed by his instrument while listening to the blues on the Black radio station in Dallas, and it has been that way ever since. When something this strong takes over, there is no way out—the pursuit just keeps going deeper.
Jimmie Vaughan has been playing the blues he hears in his head and feels in his heart for over a half-century.
When he first heard songs like Phil Upchurch’s “You Can’t Sit Down,” The Nightcaps’ “Wine, Wine, Wine” and B.B. King’s many hit songs in the early 1960s, he knew he had found his music. And ever since then, it’s been a constant quest to play the blues, whether it was in early 1970s Austin bands like Storm and then the Fabulous Thunderbirds, or later with brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on their FAMILY STYLE album, and on his own releases throughout the 1990s and in 2001.
Then the solo albums stopped, until in 2010, Vaughan had an idea to start recording The Great American Blues Songbook. He assembled the kind of band most musicians can only dream about, and began recording his dream set list at Top Hat and Wire Studios in Austin. Never one to back down from a great idea, in 2011 Vaughan and band went back into the same studio and recorded a second collection of some of his favorite songs, zeroing in on that music’s ability to light a fuse wherever it was heard.
Last fall, to help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first of the BLUES, BALLADS AND FAVOURITES albums, THE PLEASURE’S ALL MINE compiled both albums as a collection, and was released alongside a Vinyl reissue of 2016’s JIMMIE VAUGHAN TRIO featuring Mike Flanigin LIVE AT C-BOY’S release, which featured songs recorded at the venerable Austin nightspot that Vaughan and crew call home when they are in town.
In 2019, his newest release, BABY, PLEASE COME HOME brought him back into the spotlight with yet another Grammy nomination, and a Blues Foundation Award for Best Male Artist.
This year, he celebrates his life in the blues and on the road with THE JIMMIE VAUGHAN STORY, a special limited-edition box set and book including over 200 photos covering his life and the breadth of his remarkable career. And yet, Vaughan still feels like he is just getting started, devoted to making sure he is able to give back to the music that has given him so much. The blues is in Jimmie Vaughan’s blood, has been there since the start, and will stay there forever.
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Time
September 30, 2024 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310